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John Dickerson / Slate:
Why the new Benghazi emails aren't a “smoking gun.” — Has the Benghazi “smoking gun” been found? Some White House critics believe that new documents wrestled from the White House by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, prove that the Obama administration concocted a cover-up …
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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Boehner calls on Kerry to testify about email in Benghazi subpoena
Boehner calls on Kerry to testify about email in Benghazi subpoena
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Doug Ross and The Daily Caller
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Lindsey Graham: White House Officials Are ‘Scumbags’ for Lying About Benghazi
Lindsey Graham: White House Officials Are ‘Scumbags’ for Lying About Benghazi
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Balloon Juice and The Huffington Post
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Lindsey Graham: White House officials ‘scumbags’
Lindsey Graham: White House officials ‘scumbags’
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Fox News, Real Clear Politics, WJLA-TV, Power Line, Mediaite and Daily Kos
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Obama's ‘Blame the Video’ Fraud Started in Cairo, Not Benghazi
Obama's ‘Blame the Video’ Fraud Started in Cairo, Not Benghazi
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The Federalist, The Gateway Pundit, neo-neocon, protein wisdom and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
New York Post:
Disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer — This could wind up being a pretty short ban. — Disgraced racist Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer — surprising those around him by beating the final buzzer for as long as he has, sources told The Post on Thursday.
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Angel Jennings / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. head of NAACP resigns in wake of Sterling scandal — Leon Jenkins resigned Thursday as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP in the wake of the Donald Sterling scandal. (Nick Ut / AP) — Los Angeles NAACP President Leon Jenkins has resigned amid scrutiny surrounding …
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NAACP, KTLA 5, The Week, The Raw Story, Guardian, New York Times, Mediaite and National Review
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist
This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist
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ThinkProgress, Bloomberg View and SBNation.com
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Unemployment Rate at Lowest Since 2008 as Hiring Jumps — The American economy gained steam in April, adding 288,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent, the lowest level since September 2008. — After a sharp slowdown in December and January, and a modest improvement since then …
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Outside the Beltway
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Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
April Employment Report: 288,000 Jobs, 6.3% Unemployment Rate — From the BLS: … Click on graph for larger image. — The headline number was well above expectations of 215,000 payroll jobs added. — The first graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession …
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Washington Monthly, National Review, Campaign for America's Future, Daily Kos, NPR and Business Insider
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
U.S. payrolls surge in April, jobless rate hits 5-1/2 year low — (Reuters) - U.S. job growth increased at its fastest pace in more than two years in April and the unemployment rate dived to a 5-1/2 year low of 6.3 percent, suggesting a sharp rebound in economic activity early in the second quarter.
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ThinkProgress
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Why Economics Failed — On Wednesday, I wrapped up the class I've been teaching all semester: “The Great Recession: Causes and Consequences.” (Slides for the lectures are available via my blog.) And while teaching the course was fun, I found myself turning at the end to an agonizing question …
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This Is Brad DeLong's …, Vox Popoli and Shakesville
New York Times:
Donors Weigh Jilting Christie for Jeb Bush — Jeb Bush's increasingly serious and public examination of a run for president is roiling the ranks of establishment Republican donors and fund-raisers who had planned to back Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey in 2016, forcing many of them to rethink …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show and The Week
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Shadee Ashtari / The Huffington Post:
Janice Hahn Walks Out Of Event After James Dobson Calls Obama The ‘Abortion President’ — Janice Hahn James Dobson Janice Hahn Video Robert Aderholt Prayer and Meditation Robert Aderholt National Day of Prayer Janice Hahn National Day of Prayer Obama Abortion Abortion James Dobson
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Roll Call and The Raw Story
Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Hiring in U.S. Kicks Into Higher Gear as Unemployment Plunges — The job-creation engine kicked into higher gear as U.S. employers boosted payrolls in April by the most in two years and the jobless rate plunged to the lowest since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands — Major U.S. technology companies have largely ended the practice of quietly complying with investigators' demands for e-mail records and other online data, saying that users have a right to know in advance …
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Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, Techdirt and RedState
Scott Bauer / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Hulsey plans to hand out Ku Klux Klan hoods — MADISON, Wis. — Democratic candidate for governor Brett Hulsey plans to hand out white Ku Klux Klan-style hoods to Wisconsin Republicans as they gather for their annual convention Friday to highlight what he says are their racist policies.
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Talking Points Memo, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit and The Right Scoop
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Apathy in the Executive — John Paul II and Obama: a study in leadership contrasts. — Rome — Friends and I kept seeing groups of Poles who'd taken planes or 20-hour bus rides to be here for the canonization of John Paul II. They did not look wealthy.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Tom Coburn / Wall Street Journal:
Porky's II: The Earmarkers Strike Back — Restoring earmarks in today's Congress would be like opening a bar tab for a bunch of recovering alcoholics. — Remember the $223 million in federal funds earmarked in 2005 for the “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska? The project stalled but the public outrage …
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Betsy's Page
Weekly Standard:
The Slush Fund — How Obamacare pays off insurers. — Widget tooltip — When the government provides medical care, it normally delegates the task. Under Medicare, Washington doesn't employ doctors, nurses, and hospitals to treat the elderly. It has to coax them to participate.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Midterm Calculus: Bursting the Democrats' Midterm-Turnout Bubble — Bursting the Democrats' Midterm-Turnout Bubble — Getting voters to the polls is harder than some flashy political-science experiments suggest. — STATISTICAL NOISE | MAY 1, 6:48 AM — How Not to Be Misled by the Jobs Report
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National Review
Peggy Fikac / MySanAntonio.com:
Davis spokesman resigns from campaign — Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott are seeking to replace Gov. Rick Perry in the Nov. 4, 2014 election. The new governor takes office Jan. 20, 2015. — AUSTIN — Bo Delp, spokesman and former communications director for Sen. Wendy Davis' campaign for governor, has resigned.
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The Daily Caller and Fox News
Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
Don't Run for President, Hillary. Become a ‘Post-President’ Instead — The political world and her most fervent fans may be exercised about a presidential bid. But she should forget it. If she wins, it's too much stress for too little return. — I know as much as anyone …
CNN:
CNN exclusive: Amanda Knox says, ‘I did not kill my friend’ — New York (CNN) — If she had been at the scene of the crime, forensic evidence would prove her guilt, but Amanda Knox says there is nothing — no DNA, no hair, no footprints, no handprints — to show she was there.
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The College Fix
Minding the Campus / Originals:
How Colleges Waste Your Health Fees — By Jenna Ashley Robinson — Across the country, student health centers are showing signs of financial bloat and costly mission creep. Funded by both hefty campus health fees and payments from students' insurers, university health centers spend …
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National Review